PTI is set to lose completely its basecamp in second phase of LG elections in KPK: Sirajul Haq

LOWER DIR, Feb 01 (SABAH): Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Emir Sirajul Haq believes the PTI is set to lose completely its basecamp in second phase of local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.

Addressing a public meeting in his hometown Lower Dir on Tuesday, Sirajul Haq said the sun of “tabdili” was setting down from where it was imposed on people.

He said the PTI failed to bring any change in the province in eight and half years and in the country in three and half years. He also held the two main opposition parties equally responsible for the plight of the masses, saying the PML-N and the PPP were on the same boat when it came to the matter of making surrender before US or international lending agencies. The three parties, he added, sold the state bank to the IMF and signed the document of slavery. The friendly wrestling of the three parties were visible in the Senate during the passage of mini-budget and state bank amendment, he said.

Sirajul Haq said the inflation rate remained 13 percent in January and the average inflation rate, as per Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, could not come down from 10 percent in last six months. The PTI government failed to bring down inflation to single digit during its tenure and it was perhaps happened first time in history, he said.

Sirajul Haq said the people had tested the three parties which could not provide them any relief during their rule over country. The past and present rulers took massive loans and spent them on their own luxuries, he added.

He said the half of budget went back to international lenders in terms of debt payment as the capitalism and interest-based economy ruined every sector. He said country could not go ahead without elimination of interest-based economy.

A former PTI leader Haji Ameer Naushad along with hundreds of his supporters joined the JI on occasion.